Reminds me of the site Mahalo.com which used to pay users for posting answers. Anyone heard of them lately?
Quora pays thousands for posting questions
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#122What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
They realized they could make money selling high quality question/answer pairs to machine learning companies building dialog systems. As a result the more pairs they have, the more their dataset is worth. Buy questions and resell as QA pairs.
That doesn't make sense with such poor quality content and spam everywhere unless they spend a lot of time on manual cleaning. Data quality is a big part of ML training so I doubt this is any real revenue, if it's being sold at all. Do you have inside info here or are you guessing?
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#123What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
makes me wonder how HN manages to maintain sanity in such a world
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#124What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
makes me wonder how HN manages to maintain sanity
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#126Two comments: 1) Why wouldn’t the people answering the questions get that money? Aren’t they the ones adding value to the site? 2) I’ve noticed a ton of spam answers recently where the answer is just a link to another site, didn’t used to happen like 2 years ago
Turns out good questions are sometimes more valuable than good answers
But in fact the quality of the new questions go down, while the quality of answers is still better than elsewhere.
For sure good answers are more valuable than good questions.
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#127> The top earning partner has earned $26,897 and asked over 8,000 questions, averaging about 45 questions per day > The top 10 earning partners earned an average of $9,189 and asked 11,256 questions each, averaging 61 questions per day This explains quite a bit about the quality of the content on that site....
That's $0.82 per question for the top 10 earning partners, in case somebody is too lazy to do the math :)
And yes, advertising this fact seems misguided to me.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turns out good questions are sometimes more valuable than good answers
But in fact the quality of the new questions go down, while the quality of answers is still better than elsewhere. For sure good answers are more valuable than good questions.
What do you mean
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#129What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
India happened to it.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like "marketing" is how a lot of things die and/or become garbage.
Is it cause or effect though? The actual reason could be that your business model is not sustainable. Eventually you will then be pressured into ever more desperate ways to get income. Inevitably that will include ads on the web.
It's not profitable /or/ you are just going for the short-term and easy way out of the problem.